“Not in my name.” That is the response from ANC secretary general Ace Magashule to calls from the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in the Free State to burn copies of a book containing damning allegations against him. Announcing the planned burning at the Mangaung dumping site, provincial ANCYL spokesperson Sello Pietersen said: “We therefore urge society to bring along as… Read more »
This week for my region report I looked at articles about Sub Saharan Africa and an article that really interested me was about the number of cases of cholera in Mozambique, a country in south east Africa that borders Zimbabwe and Zambia. Mozambique is a country that touches the water on the east of Africa, making it a very good… Read more »
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African state arms company Denel is in talks with Airbus about winding down production of parts for the European planemaker’s A400M military aircraft, Denel said on Saturday. Denel, a cornerstone of South Africa’s once mighty defense industry, is battling to emerge from a financial and operational crisis. In February it said it could sell stakes in… Read more »
MAPUTO (Reuters) – The number of confirmed cases of cholera in Mozambique’s cyclone-hit port city of Beira has nearly doubled to 271 in the last 48 hours, the southern African nation’s government said on Saturday. Government and aid workers are seeking to contain the spread of the disease after cyclone Idai smashed into Beira on March 14, unleashing catastrophic flooding… Read more »
AARHUS, Denmark (Reuters) – Kenya’s Hellen Obiri made athletics history on Saturday when she won the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, to become the first woman to lift world titles indoors, outdoors and at cross country. Obiri emulated Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele, the only man to achieve the treble, as she powered away from Ethiopian Dera Dira to… Read more »
(Reuters) – An Ebola treatment center located at the epicenter of the current outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has resumed operations after it was attacked last month, the country’s health ministry said on Saturday. The center run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the district of Katwa was set on fire on Feb. 24 by unknown attackers, forcing… Read more »
My region for this week was Sub Saharan Africa, and an article that caught my eye this week regarded the Ethiopian Airlines. The Ethiopian Airlines pilot whose jet crashed killing 157 people had reported flight-control problems, Ethiopian Airlines said this Wednesday. The company is prepared to send the black boxes to Europe from a disaster that has rocked the global… Read more »
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria’s government is ready for dialogue with the opposition, its Deputy Prime Minister said on Wednesday, after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika reversed a decision to seek a fifth term in the face of mass protests. “Dialogue is our duty. Our top priority is to bring together all Algerians,” Ramtane Lamamra told state radio. Earlier, Armed Forces Chief of… Read more »
LAGOS (Reuters) – As many as 100 children and many others were feared trapped on Wednesday after a building containing a primary school collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos.People gather as rescue workers search for survivors at the site of a collapsed building containing a school in Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos, Nigeria March 13, 2019. A Reuters reporter at… Read more »
The Ethiopian Airlines pilot whose jet crashed killing 157 people had reported flight-control problems, the company said on Wednesday, as it prepared to send the black boxes to Europe from a disaster that has rocked the global airline industry. The still unexplained crash, just after take-off from Addis Ababa, followed another disaster involving a Boeing 737 MAX in Indonesia five months ago that… Read more »